Children are divers. Diving for children children's diving diving with children reviews. Preparation for school

Parents who have already had the opportunity to admire one day, as a rule, have a desire to attach their child to such a miracle. This is not surprising. After all, it is the children who want to convey all the most amazing and amazing things that happen in the life of a parent.

However, you can’t just buy your child equipment and take it with you during the next dive. It is essential that the young diver is properly trained. And it is better that this does not take place in one day (as happens in many resorts). It is desirable that the child takes a course of training that will help him fully prepare for diving.

In order for a minor diver to be ready to dive, it is important to choose the right school for him.

Contrary to popular belief that it is too dangerous for children, children's diving still exists. But it is important that parents place high demands on the respective schools.

The main criteria in choosing an institution

Before enrolling your child in a diving class, you should test the institution against the following criteria:

• equipment and environment;
• system;
• the age of the students;
• experience of instructors;
• tuition price.

Equipment and environment

Equipment

It is desirable that the school provides you with everything. At the same time, the institution must ensure that it provides verification and preparation of equipment. So you can be sure that during the dives your child uses only serviceable equipment, with which each instructor knows how to work correctly.

Dive site

Some schools loop children's diving around the pool alone. It is easy to guess that by honing diving skills in a closed tank, the child will not gain enough experience for a real dive.

Therefore, it is desirable that the school program provides for field training.

System

Today, children's diving, as well as an adult, can be different. The learning methods differ depending on the systems used. There are many of them. However, three are the most famous (they are recognized everywhere, so a child with immersion in a foreign country).

• CMAS;
• NAUI;
• PADI.

CMAS

This training system is recommended by the World Confederation of Underwater Activities (Confederation Mondiale des Activites Subaquatiques). It was developed by the most famous explorer of the underwater world, Jacques-Yves Cousteau. It includes several stages on which training is based:

• Introdiving. First, the student is given the opportunity to carry out an introductory dive. This is done so that the client can feel how the body behaves in the water, to adapt to the so-called soaring. Such diving is carried out under the guidance of an instructor.
• One star. Further, a person gets the opportunity to dive under water with a mask and snorkel. He cannot go to great depths, because of this the air flow will be lost. This helps the diver to learn how to swim using fins, perform underwater maneuvers, and get used to breathing through the mouth.
• One star. Further, the student begins to receive in-depth knowledge of diving and acquire appropriate skills. This course includes 12 theoretical and practical lessons.

The certificate issued after such training has no statute of limitations.

• Two stars. Such training can only be completed by a diver who has reached the age of fifteen. He will be told in more detail about physical laws, will help to hone the necessary sports skills. Moreover, this course also includes lessons on first aid to the victim.

Practical classes are held in various conditions- in different weather, visibility, in different places.

• Three Stars. Not everyone deserves a third star in diving. It is better to acquire a three-star certificate initially for those people who are self-confident, can be leaders in a group, and are ready to take responsibility for others. Upon receiving this star, a person receives all the knowledge and skills that his instructor possesses.

NAUI

This system is recommended by the National Association of Underwater Instructions. According to the stages of training, this system practically does not differ from CMAS. However, NAUI training is more common in North American regions. In Russia, it is not easy to find centers that teach according to this system.

PADI

The student comes to the first exam after listening to five lectures and attending five classes.

The training steps are also almost indistinguishable from the CMAS system. Only the names of the degrees of diver skill differ:

• Scuba Diver (swimming underwater in the pool);
• Open Water Diver (ability);
• Adventure Diver (diver with advanced open water diving skills);
• Advanced Open Water Diver (learning to dive in open water with prevailing practice and almost no theory. Children over the age of 12 are allowed);
• Rescue Diver (gives you the opportunity to be the leader in the group and teach others).

Age

Of course, before choosing one or another school, you need to make sure that a child of your age will be accepted there. Although the lower certifications are available to children and have virtually no age restrictions, some schools are not prepared to take custody of a very young diver.

As practice shows, in Moscow the minimum age of diving children reaches 5–8 years. In regions, the age bar may be higher.

Experience

Feel free to check the professional documents of the specialist who will teach your child to dive. He must have a certificate from an organization that corresponds to the training system, and a level that allows him to train others.

That is, if this is a CMAS instructor, then he must have a ***CMAS level. If this is a PADI system specialist, then - PADI Rescue Diver.

Price

When you are ready to send your child to school, make sure you can afford it. Some schools (especially those located in resort areas) present parents with unreasonably high bills for the education of their children.

As a rule, a diving school for children sets prices that are practically the same as adults.

Depending on the region, the cost can vary from $50 to $1,000 per course.

Preparation for school

Most of the institutions that teach children the art of scuba diving do not require any training. Some even teach young athletes to swim from scratch.

But many parents still prefer to play it safe and buy their child a diving suit that only he would wear. Finding a children's diving suit is not as easy as an adult, but still possible.

Moreover, you can find various models created specifically for girls and boys. Children's costume, by the way, is cheaper than an adult. However, it often becomes a little thicker.

Do not forget that it is the suit that helps the child get the most out of diving. Without it, a young swimmer can freeze. Because of this, he will either spend very little time in the water, or get sick.

In addition, the suit protects the surface of the body from burns, bruises and many other injuries.

Therefore, if your school does not provide a suit for every student, make sure to purchase one. It is better not to rely on chance and not send the child to dive in a bathing suit or swimming trunks.

The suit, as a rule, stretches well, so the child does not grow out of it so quickly. At the same time, he does not wear out for a long time.

Do not forget that when sending a child to a diving school, you do not shift all responsibility for him to the specialists of the institution. You yourself must soberly assess the risks of playing this sport and not violate the rules that you will be told about at the parent meeting.

Keep an eye on your baby's health, don't try to falsify medical certificates to deceive the instructor, monitor the sleep and nutrition of your little athlete, ask about what equipment he works with.

Then soon your child will keep the parents company in the study of underwater depths.

If you have experience in teaching children to scuba dive, write about the nuances of this process in the comments.

Diving is underwater swimming with special equipment. Diving can be both an active recreation and a sports discipline with its own competition system.

To go diving, you need to master certain skills under the guidance of a professional instructor. Diving schools provide such services and equipment. Learning to scuba dive at a diving center is necessary condition to prepare for solo diving.

Institutions (schools, clubs) in Diving, snorkeling for children in Moscow

Here is a list of all diving sections, diving clubs and sports schools for children 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old, for boys and girls. The search for a suitable place for diving in Moscow can be done directly on the map or according to the list of sports organizations represented. You can choose a suitable sports section near your children's home, work or school for their subsequent enrollment. For each of the sports sections available: phone numbers, addresses, prices, photos, descriptions and conditions to sign up for a section or clarify other information that interests you.

Here the main question is the desire of the child himself, because children's diving is not football and Athletics, here you can greatly scare the baby, and instill in him an aversion to sports, and even a fear of water for the rest of his life. It is important to find out if the child really wants to play this sport, or is just afraid to upset the parents. But since diving is a great type of family vacation, it’s definitely worth trying to attract a child to it.

Age

If a child can be given for swimming almost from the cradle, then children's diving requires a certain age: from 5 years, and even better, up to the age of eight. It is believed that until the age of 8, children have insufficiently developed lungs for this sport. However, when making decisions, instructors also look at the child's intellectual maturity and his psychological readiness for children's diving. After all, children think less about their actions and their consequences, which in principle is unacceptable in diving.

Safety

Children's diving is a very unsafe activity. As in any sport, and especially in the one that concerns children, you should:

• It is strictly necessary to limit the time of immersion of children;
• Eliminate unnecessary loads;
• Choose high-quality and suitable children's equipment;
• Control the depth of immersion, water temperature.

For a child under 10 years old, the diving depth should not exceed 2m, for a child under 12 years old - 5m, and up to 14 years old you should not dive deeper than 10 meters.

The water temperature must be at least 12 degrees, even if the child is in a wetsuit.

Each instructor and each adult who is with a child in the pool must not only ensure the safety of the young diver, but also explain to him the importance of observing safety rules on the water and, especially, under water, because the life of your diver may once depend on this .

Children cannot be considered independent and full-fledged diving partners, because, in which case, they will not be able to help an adult. Therefore, an adult is responsible for everything that happens under water, but there is no guarantee that he will be able to control the child’s incorrect behavior. In addition, the wrong behavior of a child can cost the life of his adult partner. This situation can be avoided if all safety rules are explained to the child in time.

Education

Children learn to dive much faster and easier than adults. They adapt more easily to a relatively new environment. Why relatively? In the womb, they are also in the liquid, which is why babies are easy to teach to swim. The problem with diving at such a young age is that the baby's lungs are not yet ready for such loads. Usually young diver courses last from 3 to 6 months, this time is enough for the child to learn everything necessary.

Don't give up on this fun activity. Many years of diving can even help with problems of the spine, joints, scoliosis, or even completely cure them. But if the child has any serious health problems, it is still better to consult a doctor first.

International Diving Day falls in autumn, but in Russia many professionals and amateurs of diving consider May 5 as their holiday - Diver's Day, which is celebrated in honor of the founding of the world's first diving school in Kronstadt. This event took place on May 5, 1882, during the reign of Alexander III.

And modernity is such that the popularity of diving is growing year by year, today this hobby has become massive and has not been the prerogative of adults for a long time. Still not intending to write this material, I once asked my friends - dive masters and instructors - how children and teenagers begin to be fascinated by the underwater world. The answer was unanimous - at the suggestion of the parents. If adults have fallen in love with this type of recreation and knowledge of the world, they will certainly want to introduce their children to this. It has nothing to do, they explained to me, with trips under the stick to the figure skating section or many years of torment on the violin, after which children sometimes throw away the instrument, never to touch it again.

“Usually children are fanatic, - said one of the participants in this conversation, - I know only one case when my friend, an instructor himself, taught his son and he took it as a necessity, nothing more ". However, scuba diving is a rather responsible occupation, and in the field of children's diving, it is necessary to take into account both the characteristics of the child's body and the perception of the world.

Oleg Grekov, member of the technical committee of the Confederation of Underwater Activities of Russia, diver since 1981, DOSAAF instructor since 1987, CMAS instructor, IDS Staff instructor, PADI instructor, head of the Oleg Grekov Diving School, tells about the features of children's diving to Letidor.

In my opinion, there are two concepts for introducing children to scuba diving. You can come to the resort and do 1-2 test dives, which do not oblige you to anything. But we will talk about something else - about comprehensive training and serious attitude to diving.

First of all, it should be said about the two main mistakes of parents. The first is an overly frivolous attitude. Many adults who have come into diving and who have had easy first dives believe that it is just as easy to teach a child to dive and that they can teach them themselves. The second, on the contrary, is hyperprotection. For such parents, scuba diving seems to be something extreme and dangerous, and they try to control all the actions of the instructor. Recently, a 16-year-old teenager was brought by his father to classes in the pool by the hand. This is also wrong - there is a potential danger when crossing the street, and with a competent approach, diving is no more dangerous than any other sport or outdoor activity.

There is no need to be afraid, but we must not forget about the specifics and serious differences in the learning process and the actual immersion of children and adults. There are several reasons for this, firstly, the peculiarities of the physical training of children. The equipment is quite heavy, in addition, the impact high pressure under water differs for children and adults. Secondly, children do not always correctly perceive such concepts as safety and responsibility. And finally, at school age, it is much more difficult to understand the laws of physics and physiology on which this safety technique is built. At the same time, children, as a rule, master underwater much faster and easier than adults because of their curiosity, greater readiness to perceive everything new and craving for adventure.

In all diver training and certification systems (CMAS and PADI systems are the most common in Russia), there are special courses and programs for children. They differ in duration, the minimum age of students, the depth of immersion, but all are mainly built on gaming methods with mandatory consideration individual abilities every child. Here a lot depends on the instructor - not everyone is ready to work with children, since this is an additional responsibility, it is not enough to be a good diver, you also need to be a good teacher, be able to present the material correctly. In our school, for example, those instructors who work with children go through physics with them using clear and understandable examples - and then in a regular school in physics lessons, children show excellent results, even if earlier in this subject it was “no way”.

Parents often ask the question at what age can children go diving. There are no uniform standards here, there are recommendations, and there is an objective assessment of the child's capabilities, which the instructor must give. In some cases, parents are advised to wait six months or a year, and then come back. It can be quite traumatic for parents to hear that their child, the “best”, is not yet ready for diving, although his peers are already engaged, but in case of risk or danger to health, the instructor must take a tough stance.

The CMAS Confederation calls the lower age bar at 8-12 years old, starting from the age of 14, teenagers can receive certificates according to adult CMAS standards. The PADI Association sets the minimum age individually for each course of study. 10-year-old children are allowed to dive in shallow areas and in the pool to a depth of no more than 6 m, then gradually, accompanied by an instructor, they are trained to dive in open water up to 12 m. From the age of 10, a child can receive a PADI Junior Open Water certificate. And in all cases, children under 15 should only dive with adult certified divers.

There are special programs for the little ones, starting from 5-6 years of age. In these cases, special equipment is used, which includes a life jacket, to which a regulator and an air tank are attached. Thus, the child swims on the surface of the water without raising his head, and from a very young age learns to use scuba gear. Instructors who conduct such courses are certified separately.

Starting from the age of 8, it is permissible to make short dives to a depth of no more than 2 m. I would like to once again warn parents against overestimating the capabilities of their child and, in particular, their capabilities. It happens that inexperienced adult divers, exceeding safe depth limits, cannot cope with the difficulties that have arisen, and even more so cannot help a child who is nearby. For an adult, alone, this is a risky stupidity, but also his personal responsibility, and if there is a child nearby, it is already a crime.

In general, almost all problems at depth are associated with safety violations. In our practice, there were no tragic cases, thank God. There were several cases when teenagers forgot to check the equipment in a timely manner, and the dive had to be interrupted. But ridiculous, but not terrible stories periodically occur. We warn you many times: do not put corals in swimming trunks or wetsuits - they drag them anyway. One boy accidentally brushed a bunch of sunglasses from the whole group into the water - then they dived and got it out. Several times children found underwater cameras and flashlights dropped by adult tourists at shallow depths…

My son is 4 years old, he already knows how to dive while holding his breath, we will teach him to dive with his wife Irina (she is also a diving instructor). But whether diving will become his profession - he will decide when he grows up.

Diving for children. Children's diving. Information for parents:

Teaching children to scuba dive is somewhat different from teaching an adult. The task of the instructor is to explain rather complex things to the child in a simple and accessible language. Oddly enough, children master the theoretical part of education faster than adults. This is because the brain of a child is better tuned to assimilate new material than that of an adult. The child goes to school, and every day he discovers things that are fantastic in scale. For example, yesterday he learned what the world ocean is, what the law of Archimedes is, and indeed what a person is. The only difference between the process of learning to dive and teaching mathematics or physics at school is that the instructor includes elements of the game and the relative freedom of the child in this process (up to certain limits, of course). The child should have the feeling that, despite the seriousness of the material being studied, this is, after all, a rest. However, during the training process, the instructor will set the child up for a serious approach to this lesson. The practical part of the training in the water will be accompanied and under the obligatory supervision of an instructor. The child will be taught to scuba dive, but in the future, an adult will have to organize, plan and control the conduct of these dives. No matter how responsible and careful the young scuba diver is, the child still has a limited measure of responsibility for his actions, and therefore the entire responsibility for the dive lies with the adults accompanying him. The best option would be if these dives are always carried out by certified instructors. In the future, when the young diver will grow up, he will be able to take an additional course and become an independent scuba diver.

Features of the psychology and physiology of children impose certain restrictions on their ability to dive:

In most cases, children freeze quickly, even in warm water. And they don't like to admit it. It is more difficult for children to move around in a thick neoprene suit and heavy fins. Features of the development of the cardiopulmonary system lead to problems with continuous loads. Children may be prone to overestimate their strengths or underestimate danger. Children may not fully understand the basics of safe behavior underwater. Children succumb more easily to group pressure, especially from parents. Children may strive to complete the task "at any cost" without considering the consequences

• Bubblemaker Course

  
  

  bubblemaker up to 2 meters - one dive, designed specifically for children boys and girls from 8 to 10 years old. There are no requirements or restrictions. In shallow water, under the guidance of a qualified instructor and in special children's equipment, they take their first steps in diving and learn to breathe underwater. The depth, as a rule, does not exceed 1-2 meters, the dive time is 20 - 30 minutes, this is usually either pool Kata, Ao Sane (, photo gallery) on our house reef . The dive center is right on the beach. You need to walk 30 meters to the water.on our house reef . Upon completion of the dive, a beautiful diploma is issued.

• Discover Scuba Diver - Trial Dive

  
  

  Discover Scuba Diver diving for children from 10 full years - trial dive up to 12 meters. In just 1 day, your child will become a real diver and receive their first congratulatory certificate! During the dive, he will learn to independently prepare and use equipment. Master the basic skills of scuba diving. After a trial dive, the child will be able to continue their education and, if desired, improve their skills to the level Junior Open Water Diver PADI or Junior Diver NDL. This takes 2 more days. The first two dives take place in Kata pool, or dive from the beach Ao Sane (, photo gallery) on our house reef . Racha Yai ()- on diving sites

  • Junior Open Water Diver course

    
    

    Junior Open Water Diver PADI or Junior Diver NDL up to 12 meters, diving for children from 10 full years. Your child will learn how to dive correctly and safely. He will be able to work in a team, both in the classroom and underwater, learn what it means to be a buddy, learn first aid techniques, master all the skills of the Open Water Diver course. Our dive center has special small scuba gear for our most important divers. Our instructors have extensive experience in teaching children. In general, everything is like in adults, and even better! After successfully passing the open water exam, your child will receive a certificate - Junior Open Water Diver or Junior Diver NDL, which gives the right to dive in open water accompanied by adults to a depth of 12 meters. And most importantly, your child will learn to assess their strengths, to cope with problems on their own. That is, he will take an important step in life. The first two dives are on the first two dives are on the Kata pool, or dive from the beach Ao Sane Ao Sane (, photo gallery) on our house reef . The dive center is right on the beach. You have to walk 30 meters to the water. The beach has a cafe, shower, toilet, sunshades. Further on the second day, the dives take place from the ship on the island of the island Racha Yai ()- on diving sites Bungalow Bay , Bay 1 or Siam Bay

  • Junior Advanced Open Water Diver Course

    
    

    Junior Advanced Open Water Diver or Junior Universal Diver NDL up to 21 meters, diving for children from 12 full years. If your child is already a certified diver, loves to dive and does not want to stop there - a special program for children PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver will open up new horizons for him. Within two days, he will make five exciting adventure dives, where he will learn to navigate well by compass, dive to a depth of 21 meters, learn a lot of interesting things about underwater inhabitants, and receive a certificate of an experienced young diver. The first two dives take place on the island of Racha Yai , or from shore on our house reef. The first two dives are from the beach Ao Sane (, photo gallery) on our house reef . The dive center is right on the beach. You have to walk 30 meters to the water. The beach has a cafe, shower, toilet, sunshades. Either from the island Racha Yai ()- on diving sites Bungalow Bay , Bay 1 or Siam Bay, then on the second day, dives take place from the ship on the island of Racha Noi or Phi Phi

    • Junior Rescue Diver course

      
      

      Junior Rescue Diver PADI or Junior Rescue Diver NDL- diving for children from 12 full years. One of the most interesting courses. Your child will learn to anticipate and prevent most diving emergencies, as well as the skills to rescue divers on the surface and underwater.

      The course program includes the following sections: Rescue and stress in divers. Prevention and stress relief. Providing first aid during diving. Actions in extreme situations. Providing assistance in water and on land. Panic diver. Action plan in case of loss of a diver. Resurrection of an unconscious diver. Artificial respiration on the surface of the water. Medical assistance in case of accidents related to pressure. Diving accident scenarios. The course takes 4-5 days. As part of the course, we try to cover all aspects of rescuing people at sea.